Welcome to our website. We are all about coverlets,
figured and fancy
(“jacquard”), geometric, overshot, double weave, and
tied-Beiderwand.

After 20 years of working to build collections and raise
awareness and appreciation of woven 19th century bedcovers, we are
proud to announce that we have established The
National Museum of the American Coverlet* in historic Bedford,
Pennsylvania.

The Coverlet Museum is the first year-round, independent
institution devoted to the woven coverlet. The Museum’s Interim
Gallery and Museum Shop are now open daily, with a full-scale operations
planned for May of 2007. In addition to changing displays of “period” coverlets
in all the major weave structures, there will be early weaving equipment,
a research library, and more.

Why did we do this? It was inevitable. Many people are
concerned about what will happen to their beloved collections, while
other people worry that fewer and fewer young folks understand them.
Still others have no idea what a coverlet is!

There are coverlets in the collections of important museums
around America, but in most cases you would never know it. Few general
interest museums have the time or resources to do justice to their
coverlets. As a result they are seldom displayed or even discussed.

We feel, and scores of people agree with us, that it is
time to address these problems. It is time for a museum devoted solely
to coverlets – and that museum now exists.